Is a Meteor about to strike Tilted Towers? And what could Epic Games be planning?

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FORTNITE INTEL

Today's new 3.6 Update includes this new area in Tilted Towers

FORTNITE TILTED TOWERS UPDATE

Late last night players have started to notice more and more meteors, perhaps smaller fragments of the main meteor, visible in the sky above the Fortnite Battle Royale Map.

Fortnite steamer Ninja even noticed that when aiming towards the comet a strange noise can be found. Further investigation by Reddit userLucas7yoshi, who put the sounds through a spectrogram noticed that it displayed the infamous ‘Take The L’ dance.

It's clear that Epic Games are building towards,something, but the question is, when will they reveal this giant event to their players?

There's a new game update coming today, complete with server downtime, so they might be looking to make the changes then.

But equally, as we've alluded to before, it might be strange to do it whilst also launching the games new 50vs50 LTM, especially with a new Meteor themed LTM also waiting in the wings of the games files.

Right now, it still seems most likely that Epic is ramping up the hype for this big in-game event, but that, the actual occasion could be reserved until next week, which would also be much closer to the start of Fortnite Season 4.

FORTNITE 50 vs 50 LTM UPDATE

Epic Games have reiterated their intention to release the new 50 vs 50 LTM mode tomorrow, replying to fans on Twitter they said:

"The update for the LMG and 50v50 is currently planned for tomorrow but we'll have more information on that later today."

Which again, assuming our suggestions are correct that they won't flatten Tilted Towers on the same day as launching the 50vs50 LTM, it would seem to suggest that the big Meteor event people have been waiting for won't happen this week.

ORIGINAL STORY - A large portion of Fortnite Battle Royale players are convinced that today will be the day that Epic Games lay to waste Tilted Towers, utilising that giant blue Meteor that's been in the sky these past few weeks.

This is all somewhat connected to Epic Games April fools day [prank?] which saw a morse code messaged added into the game via random PS4 and Xbox One controller rumblings.

According to one Reddit user, the rumblings translate to "SOS D 5 418".

And for those who don't know, Tilted Towers is located at D5 on the map. The 418 many believe could be in relation to April 18th.

However, there's one very good reason which would suggest that any plans to destroy Tilted Towers today could be on hold.

And that's because everyone appears to have completely ignored the fact that this week is supposed to be the return of Fortnite Battle Royale 50 vs 50 Limited Time Event.

The 50 vs 50 LTM was supposed to go live last week, but complications resulting from the games severe server issues meant it had to be delayed.

The exact explanation given to fans read:

"Due to the account service issues we’ve been experiencing, and in order to preserve your play experience this weekend, we will be delaying it to next week."

Now, you might be thinking, 'why does that matter in relation to Tilted Towers?', well that's three fold.

First, Epic Games responded to fans on Reddit and told them that the current plan was to enable 50 vs 50 v2 "later this week."

If that's the case, it's hard to imagine that after all this build-up and hype, when Epic Games finally pull back the curtain to reveal this incredible destruction of Tilted Towers, that they'd then just undercut themselves with this new 50 vs 50 LTM.

The third and final thing to consider is that it was found in the game's code last week that there's a new LTM planned, called Impact.

'Impact' certainly sounds like it would be linked to any big meteorite filled destruction, which would be very hard to do when they're also promoting 50 vs 50 version 2.

Fortnite 50v50 V2 - How Epic's Games LTM could change for the better

50v50 is returning, but fans have a pretty good idea of how the new mode could look different to the mode previously.

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So what does this mean? Well, it would seem likely that any big meteor laying waste to Tilted Towers is likely coming next week, presumably after Epic Games have allowed players to enjoy the new 50 vs 50 v2 LTM.

We imagine that there won't be any further changes proposed to the games new 50 vs 50 LTM, in which case, take a look at the below patch notes from last week to see how the game mode has changed since it was first introduced last year.

50V50 v2 PATCH NOTES:

Two teams of 50 fight to the finish!

Due to this being a “large squad” mode, Profile Stats will not be tracked. Daily & Weekly challenges will still work, with the exception of the Squad-based challenges (‘Place Top 6 in Squads’, etc.).

Storm & Map

Each team has a bus, approaching the island from opposite directions. On the map, the friendly bus has a blue outline,enemyhas red.

Final storm circle visible onminimapatstart.

Players have 10 minutes to loot the map as the storm closes in on the circle, then 5 minutes to fight, and another 5 minutes as the storm shrinks to the end.

Supply drops come in batches of 3-6, fall every two minutes, andonlyland in the final storm circle.

Addeddottedline to map, which indicates the "battle lines" between the two teams. Crossing the line will make running into enemies more likely.